Guido Deiro World's Foremost Piano-Accordionist - Part 2

#2. The Serenade from Les Millions D'Arlequin (Drigo) Performed by: Count Guido Deiro (1886 - 1950) Italian born composer and Vaudeville headliner who introduced (1910), named and popularized the piano-accordion in America. The first to play the instrument onstage, on the radio, in film (Vitaphone) and sound recordings (Edison). Known as the virtuoso of the accordion he was the first accordionist to play the "Palace" and composed the theme music for the Broadway hit "Kismet". Deiro discovered, professionally developed and married the teenaged Mae West. They performed on the same bill for nearly four years.(1913-1916). This 1929 Vitaphone is the first sound on film of the piano-accordion and is Part 2 of two selections.
See www.guidodeiro.com for illustrated pages on the making of this Vitaphone.

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• Deiro
• Guido
• Vitaphone
• Piano-Accordion
• Accordion
• D'Arlequin
• World
• Music
• Mae
• West
• classical

[airmuseum]

Hola Amigo,

El acordeón es un Guerinni. Fue hecho en 1925 en San Francisco, California para mi padre especialmente.

Soy siempre feliz de oír de otro jugador.

Mis saludos,

Guido Deiro, Jr.

[organdude44]

What a great artist! This video is a gem!! Thank you for posting it.

[Semeramide]

this is a really beautiful song. I play this song all the time at Italian functions and all the old timers love it and so do I. Thanks for posting this video

[RolandfionaRuby123]

he is good wow 

[likoslikos1]

Hola, soy de Argentina me gusta mucho el acordeon y o tengo un acordeon igual que ese, el mio es marca verde leini ese acordeon es igual quiero saber porque yo no se los años que tiene mi acordeon se que es italiana. Un saludo grande los felicito.

[ScottishFiddleLesson]

fantastic!

[iloveskateboarding61]

beautiful song

[jmperak]

exelente -----

[drsignotthome]

Thank you very much for posting this video. Your father was a virtuoso on the accordion in its golden age. I am very impressed.

[merbenzgill]

I play the accordion but now i can say i dont ,Italians are the last word in music and im irish .his brother was tops too .my uncle on the told me he met petro his brother and never for got it ,thats jst how good this family is  may god bless him